In the modest home where they shared a childhood with Mr. Taylor, Ms. Chaney and her brother Derek, both truck drivers, described him as a bright, kind man wounded by a dark teenage episode they did not fully understand. He dropped out of high school and resisted their efforts to help, while complaining that many people view the homeless with disdain. His baptism in a prison chapel raised hopes for change that went unmet.... On good days, friends found him protective and kind. Bad days evoked his street name, Psycho. “If he didn’t get his way, all hell would break lose,” [his girlfriend Lolita] Griffeth said.
March 29, 2025
"Whether he was high as a kite or hungry as a hippo, he didn’t deserve to be crushed."
Said Darlene Chaney, cousin of Cornelius Taylor, quoted in "In Cities’ Rush to Clear Homeless Camps, People Have Been Crushed to Death/Atlanta’s mayor began a drive to clear homeless encampments. But when heavy equipment came to raze one, nobody noticed that Cornelius Taylor was still inside his tent" (NYT).
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RIP, Cornelius the Crushed.
It's about time people are waking up to the disaster of letting brain-damaged drug addicts do whatever they want, whenever they want, where ever they want.
We need to revive the state mental hospital system. Allowing the homeless to live in this manner isn’t some statement about individual autonomy, it’s cruel. If someone is chronically homeless, they are experiencing significant issues such as mental health, substance abuse and/or justice system involvement that prevents them from accessing employment, housing, healthcare and other basic needs. Providing a safe place that not only gets them off the streets but provides a pathway for recovery is both humane and cost effective when compared with the status quo.
"Don't sleep on the subway. Don't sleep on the subway tracks."
Deserve's got nothing to do with it.
Addiction has overwhelmingly collateral damage.
What Crimso said.
To earn the street name Psycho...it's hard to imagine.
Although there was a baseball player named Psycho--Steve Lyons. He was psycho in an entertaining way.
It doesn't sound like that was the case with Cornelius. RIP.
"Providing a safe place that not only gets them off the streets but provides a pathway for recovery is both humane and cost effective when compared with the status quo." Kak, I'd like to see an example where this has proven true for most of those in such programs.
For a substantial proportion of the homeless that pathway just isn't there or is soundly rejected.
Did he deserve, did WE deserve Psyco and his lifestyle? Perhaps a few more billions of dollars, perhaps a few more decades of growing tent cities would do.... what exactly?
Although the mayor is a Democrat, Mr. Taylor is anticipated to vote Democrat is upcoming elections as part of the Democrats’ Plano-American interest group.
A feel good story. I HATE what Atlanta has become.
Some girlfriend.
I’m fine with forcibly clearing tent cities, but someone should be held accountable for running over a tent without making sure it’s empty.
I agree with Kakistocracy. We can not deal with homeless people without addressing the underlying issues of why those people are homeless. It is almost never just a string of bad luck that results in folks being homeless. The overwhelming majority of homeless folks either have a substance abuse problem or a significant mental problem that makes it impossible for them to function in normal society. Even REASON, the libertarian magazine, put out a video a few years ago, which while not a full-throated endorsement, was at least supportive of the proposition of bringing back involuntary mental institutions. Some folks are broken and are unable to put themself back to together without outside help. It isn't humane to let them languish on the street in pieces with the occasional hot meal, and a making sure they have a warm coat in winter.
So, I can gather that Rachel Correy WAS in fact an accident then. Thanks, Democrats!
@Kakis, who said: "We need to revive the state mental hospital system."
That would be a huge mistake. We tried doing the right thing and come to find out, mental hospitals attract liberal Democrats as employees and pretty much ONLY liberal Democrats as employees.
They then set about physically, emotionally and sexually abusing the patients. Nurse Ratched's all of them. This resulted in lawsuits against local governments and taxpayers took it up the keister.
As long as we have Democrats, we can't create silos of people such as schools or mental hospitals for them to rape and beat. It's too costly.
Kleptocracy marries abortive ideation exercised with liberal license under progressive principles in sanctuary states.
Agreed, nobody deserves to be crushed to death.
Google says that each year, 2 to 3 people are crushed to death by vending machines. Some of them were probably hungry as hippos, but they did not deserve their fate. Those were unlikely accidents, but we still use vending machines.
The rest of us don't deserve the danger, squalor and disruption from homeless camps. Clear the homeless camps in a safe manner.
Perhaps the homeless advocates could volunteer to help by clearing the camp in advance.
" each year, 2 to 3 people are crushed to death by vending machines. "
we NEED vending machine control!!
No One NEEDS these high capacity machines!!!
Vending Machine CONTROL NOW!!!
Bad days evoked his street name, Psycho.
His real name was Francis, but nobody called him that.
A human omelette
Kakistocracy said...
"It's about time people are waking up to the disaster of letting brain-damaged drug addicts do whatever they want, whenever they want, where ever they want."
Yes it is. And it's about time you left and sought help.
You know he's a bad ass when his drug addled, psychotic peers named him "psycho".
Caring for the poor is a fool's errand.
We don't believe in Christ anymore here.
We have to follow the money, and cannot afford to care for the poor, the elderly, the children, the women. Might is Right.
That's why you bought the gun, and still today ask for money to support you. The wolf is always at the door. You will grow
physically weaker, maybe meade will not always be there to protect you. Your sons are weak, like their father. They won't put you first or die for you...
You know the truth and are not afraid to speak it.
We don't give a damn about crushing someone. You would hate them if you had to clean that up. Or if it was in your neighborhood but you pay to avert your eyes and live with other nice people
The weak have no place in our country today. There will be less people, but they will all have earned the privilege to live. That's not a right but a privilege if you play by the rules. They are testing the weapons in Gaza that will level our own failing cities like Chicago so the strong can rebuild. That's why we teach little children Chinese and to bounce on old men's laps. Any skills to save them...
LOL at Cornelius the Crushed.
Truth be told, we all know the world is better off without him. Hopefully he did not reproduce himself so his failed gene pool will live on.
I hope you get a lot of money tonight off the content you encourage. Your skill is not in reading, understanding, thinking... your skill is attracting old men with ugly thoughts and bodies who will pay you like a good whore to let them ejaculate all over your blog. It makes them happy, the release and your pimp meade is happy to whore you out and watch.
"Good grrrl, annie" I can smell the fresh dollar bills with the ejaculate coming in now. You should thank Cornelius the Crushed too, and all those who feed you the material you need for your work platform to succeed.
God knows, no one is judging you except to admire your success here. Did the sun come up today? Did you run down like Mary Magdalene to observe it? Goodgrrrl. Now open your mouth and show us you swallowed?
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Hey? We're gonna get you too...
Another one bites the dust!
And another one's gone and another one's gone... another one bites the dust! Yee haw
Did jonny's band ever learn that classic? Or did you just bring him up on that dylan beatles crap?? lol. Pray for Chrissy. They're gonna get her too... like Dawn. Jon and Richard too, weak jew boys are next in line after the weak women are wiped out.
No they're not homeless, but the more you feedthe Machine, the stronger the Machine gets. meade is a beta too... You're selling them all out, but you have to do that to survive yourself. Keep feeding the Hate Machine, it will never get out of control for you, surely
Was he a nigger?
Nuff said. Adios.
"...a clearance crew descended on the Atlanta site, a block from the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, and their heavy equipment crushed his tent as he lay undetected inside...."
So many places to hide, in a tent. You want to solve the 'psycho on the street' problem, the first thing society needs to address is the terrible addiction we have to social programs that pump money into the 'homeless' industry, or rather, the pockets of homeless industry staffers and leaders, that rely on this as their wealth generator, rather than being funded dependent on a regular review of their results.
"In cities' rush to clear homeless camps, people have been crushed to death." Oh, boo fucking hoo.
Typical bullshit libtard deception for manipulation.
Cities "rushing" to close these camps that they have created and facilitated for well over 10 years now? Some rush.
"People" have not been crushed. One drugged up scumbag menace to society couldn't rouse his rotten ass to get out of bed before he got ran over. Good riddance.
The Democrat Party propaganda press works to soft-sell the evil and destructive politics that harm America while enriching Party members.
Rusty — I really tried to follow your arguments but had to realize by the end of your comments that there were none.
If only he had been aborted before costing society so much. Eh?
I see the theme today!!!
Michael Fitzgerald: You going to Saturday night Mass, or in the morning? lol
Psycho needed to be in an institution. Unfortunately, the kind of institution he needed has never existed. It's unlikely to ever exist. He needed a deus ex machina.
I’m fine with forcibly clearing tent cities, but someone should be held accountable for running over a tent without making sure it’s empty.
Ditto. No tents and strewn garbage on public property. But don't run over human beings with a front end loader.
"Perhaps the homeless advocates could volunteer to help by clearing the camp in advance."
They could, but they won't.
ATL mayor is under scrutiny for possible malfeasance, so he is responding to calls to clear tent hubs, from the side he believes could protect him. The politics of homelessness. Or, as some would prefer, the unhoused.
Kakistocracy said..
No surprise.
A while back a city auditor resigned over what she claimed were "retaliatory work environment and abuses at City Hall". That probably was not good for tha mayor.
Atlanta has not been the same since Sherman left town.
Being zorked out stoned and lying in the street is the moral equivalent of a request for assisted suicide.
Looks like the city needs to have the police make a pass thru to knock down the tents before the mucking process occurs. But like in cop city, one of the homeless would pull a gun and start shooting.
Detroit is famously full of derelict houses and buildings. The city has money and people to tear them down.
A few years ago I read that the derelict nature was one of the big problems to bulldozing them.
Before a building can be torn down it must be verified as empty. But the condition of the building often makes it life threatening to do a search.
John Henry
Gilbar,
A few years ago I bought a dresser from IKEA. It was about 4' tall.
It came with prominent and graphic warnings that it could tip over and kill children. It came with brackets and instructions that it MUST be Bolted to the wall.
I smirked about overreaction. On further thought, I envisioned myself as a 4 yr old trying to climb up to get something off the top. It certainly could have tipped on me.
We need better furniture control,
John Henry
A tragic end to a tragic life. Blame to be spread around, but the lion's share belongs to the victim. Second on the list of those to blame are the idiot progressives who tolerated public homelessness.
When the homeless are indulged rather than not given the option of living on the streets, the underlying causes of their homelessness fester, worsen, and become more ingrained and more difficult to mitigate.
My guess is that 50+% of the homelessness that exists today would never have occurred if it were not encouraged by the left. And that many of the homeless would be productive, law-abiding citizens making positive contributions to society rather than a huge social problem costing the public a lot of money.
"... he didn’t deserve to be crushed."
Reminds me of the Rham Emanuel maxim "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." 👀
It's surprising that they didn't send people into the homeless camp to check for any homeless people before the heavy equipment moved in. I also can't believe that the drivers of the heavy equipment weren't given assurances that there was no one there before they rolled in.
His real name was Francis, but nobody called him that.
Heh.
I lived about a mile from this place for 20 years. During this time, psycho homeless people killed two innocent store clerks and a really decent mechanic I knew well, having hired him for construction work. Others broke into my neighbor's house, shot her two Golden Retrievers to death, and ransacked the house. The neighbors on both sides of me were murdered by junkies in separate incidents.
Why did I live there? I was doing social work and a lot of it pro-bono for my city councilwoman. I couldn't afford to move.
That was stupid of me. I just made it all worse.
I learned. This scum needs to be eliminated.
The larger issue is that there’s a subset of folks who will refuse shelter for various reasons, often mentally ill individuals. This subset of the larger crisis is often most visible, and will not end until institutionalization is mandated. This means funding mental institutions and doing what we can to avoid the perils of similar hospitals in the mid 20th century. It has to happen and the courts need to weigh more on "quality of life" instead of just "immediate danger" when assessing legal intervention.
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